Paddle-wheel.



N0. 697,7!2. Patented Apr. I5. I902 H. GLARDUN.

PADDLE WHEEL.

Application filed Jam 24, 1902.

No Model.

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UNrTnp STATES ATEN OFFICE.

HENRI GLARDON, OF GALVESTON, TEXAS.

PADDLE-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 697,712, dated. April 15, 1902.

Application filed January 24, 1902. Serial No. 91,098. (No model.)

To aZZ 1071 0111, if; may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRI GLARDON, a citizen of Switzerland, residing at Galveston, in the county of Galveston and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paddle-\Vheels, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved motor, parts being broken away. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same, parts broken away; and Figs. 3 and 4: are detail views.

1 represents a paddle wheel having the transverse paddles 2 mounted in its peripherv.

3 is a shaft mounted upon a suitable support 1, said shaft having a circular enlargement 5, upon which the said wheel 1 is adapted to freely rotate, each side of the wheel 1 being provided with a circular opening of a 'diameter sufficient to insure a snug fitwith the enlargement 5 and at the same time permit the said wheel to rotate freely. The enlargement 5 is provided with a journal-bearing 6, within which is journaled the shaft 7, said shaft being provided at one end with a suit able pinion 8, to be hereinafter referred to.

9 is a drum composed of a series of invert- ,ed-V-shaped buckets 10, suitably secured together, said drum being rigidly mounted and keyed upon the shaft 7 within the paddlewheel 1 and eccentrically positioned with respect to said wheel, as more clearly shown in Fig. 1. The relative position of the paddle- Wheel 1 and the drum 9 is such that the buckets of the inner drum 9 intermesh with the paddles of the wheel 1 at the top, as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

For purposes of connecting the inner wheel with an engine I may place a pinion 8 upon the shaft 7 or secure a wrist-pin 12 upon said shaft.

In Fig. 4 I have shown the periphery of the paddle-wheel 1 provided with a series of do; pressions 13, which for all practical purposes forma rack-bar on said periphery, with which the pinions 14: are adapted to mesh, said pinion being mounted upon a suitable shaft 15, through which power is transmitted from a suitable engine or motor to the propellingwheels.

The operation of this paddle-wheel is as follows: When the paddle-wheel is submerged about one-third, the buckets 10 of the drum within the paddle-wheel will be submerged in the Water, and when power is applied to the paddle-wheel 1 these buckets will strike the water, which rushes in between the paddles 2, thereby forcing the water out again through said paddles. The drum-wheel 9, by reason of the engagement of the buckets 10 with the paddles 2 of the paddle-wheell, exerts'power upon said paddle-wheel 1, in addition to the power of the engine connected to the paddle, thereby increasing the driving power of the wheel 1.

From the above it will be seen that the power of the paddle-wheel 1 and the drum 9 is concentrated in shaft 7. From this it will be seen that the shaft 7 is given the combined power converted by means of the outer paddle-wheel and the inner drum, thus concentrating the power of both wheels. The connection between the engine or motor and the pinion 8, the shaft 15, or the wrist-pin 12 is obvious, and hence it is not necessary to herein describe the same.

\Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

- 1. In a wheel of the characterdescribed, the combination with a paddle wheel loosely mounted upon a shaft, of an inner paddlewheel rigidly keyed to a shaft and mounted within and eccentrically to the first-named paddle-wheel, whereby the paddles of the respective wheels intermesh.

2. In a wheel of the character described, the combination with a support of a paddle-wheel mounted upon said support and adapted to freely revolve thereon, of a shaft journaled in said support and a paddle-wheel journaled in said support eccentrically to said paddlewheel and a paddle-wheel rigidly keyed to said shaft within said wheel whereby the said paddle-wheels intermesh and their combined power is concentrated in the said shaft.

3. In a wheel of the character described, the combination with suitable supports, short shafts having circular enlargements secured I combined power of the two Wheels is coni0 to freely'revolve upon said enlargements, of

to said supports andapaddle-wheel mounted centrated, and means for transmitting said power.

trio to the paddle-wheel, a drum'keyed to said shaft within said paddle-wheel, inverted-V- shaped buckets secured to the periphery of said drum and adapted to intermesh with the paddles of said paddle-wheel, whereby the day of January, 1902.

' HENRI GLARDON. In presence of- ED. A. NEBLETTS J SONNENTHEIL.

a shaft journaled insaid enlargements eccenl The foregoing specification signed this 11th 

